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Lars Wirzenius Mar 18

I first learned how to program in 1984 at 14. The tech press said I'd be obsolete by 25, due to age.

About 1990 tech press said the Japanese were building fifth generation computers to make me obsolete.

In 2000, the dot com bubble bursting was said to make me obsolete.

There's been neural networks, no-code, and more, since then, to make me obsolete.

Now it's LLMs.

Excuse me while I sit here and don't panic.

#rant

EDIT: This blew up. Muting the thread for some peace and quiet.

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Rob Abram

@liw I’m a couple of years older than you, and I remember that one of the first half-dozen issues of Personal Computer World magazine that I bought had an article about The Last One (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)), which was a program generator that would make 'real' programmers obsolete. In 1981.

<narrator’s voice> It didn’t make real programmers obsolete either.

The Last One (software) - Wikipedia